RE: my 70-270 exam experience

I am a little confused about this statement you made below.

"Anyway, I passed it and with my old NT 4 MCSE this should make me MCSA
certified now." Are you saying that if you are a NT 4 MCSE and you pass the
xp exam this automaticlly makes you a MCSA?
--
ray3d84


"Jeroen Wijnands" wrote:

This morning I sat my 70-270 exam (XP pro) and boy, was it a though
one! I managed to scrape trough with 922 points but that took work!
Also, something funny happened, I got the same question twice.

I prepared for it with the MS-Press book and a transcender CD. My
tactic is always to read the book, write a summary and then take a test
examn, study what I did wrong, take another, etc.. Usually 4 test
examns is sufficient.
Despite other people's opinions up until now I had the impression that
transcenders were a decent way to prepare for an examn. Not for this
one! The transcender questions are hopelessly outdated, a large part
seems to come directly from the old 2000 exam. In one word, useless!!
So, to feel at least a bit prepared I got a testking practice exam
(yes, go ahead and shoot me for using testking)

What to study:

- Basic TCP/IP (know the difference between a normal adres, an APIPA
one, a gateway and your own backside)
-Policies, what they can do and how to check if they are applied and
how to force them onto a machine
- All the different ways to install and upgrade XP including the files
needed and where to put 'm. Know when and how you can include
applications in the install process.
- PXE booting
- Printing (spooling, queues, operating rights, pooling)
- Dial-up networking
- ICS (including how to "publish" a service)
- Firewall
- Remote assistance and remote desktop
- What rights are needed to install hardware (printers, removable media
devices)
- the password reset disk
- IIS and especially the limitations of the XP implementation
- Encryption and what you can and cannot do for a user
- Offline files
- Disks, basic, dynamic and what you can do to extend them


MS decided to hand me 58 questions to test my knowledge. No simulation
questions on this one.


I'm glad it's over. In my opinion it was a lot ground to cover in a
single exam. Anyway, I passed it and with my old NT 4 MCSE this should
make me MCSA certified now.
Next exam: 70-284, Microsoft Exchange!

Jeroen Wijnands
http://wijnands.blogspot.com


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